Shahu Maharaj

Did you know that Shahaji II, the Maharaja of Kolhapur, sponsored a 22-year-old wrestler from Satara for the 1948 London Olympics? Or that Chatrapati Shahu Maharaj built hundreds of akharas to create a city that produced legendary wrestlers?

"Not many books on the life of Sarsenapati Umabaisaheb Dabhade are found in bookstores. Very little has been written about her. I always feel that her story just remained in the original letters and in a very few books written in the old times. Her laurels did not reach the masses as they should have."